1.  The CPCz did better than expected, becoming the second largest force in the Federal Assembly and in the Czech National Council.

2.  The failure of the Democratic Party of the Left to hold its position as the second electoral force was unprecedented in any post-war elections of comparable scope.

3.  A second force behind the boom is the giant Mission Bay project.

4.  A second force was bin Laden himself, who soon returned to Pakistan.

5.  But the second largest force in the Congress and the country, after the Institutional Revolutionary Party, is the conservative National Action Party, known as the PAN.

6.  So, last month Xerox installed a second sales force to serve the digital and SOHO markets.

7.  The second force would help maintain security after the Americans leave.

8.  The second forces Nortel to move quickly into new opportunities while synchronizing the various parts of the corporation to do so.

9.  PAN officials in Veracruz said their party was emerging as the second strongest political force in the state, overtaking the leftist Democratic Revolution Party, or PRD.

10.  PAN officials in Veracruz state said their party was emerging as the second political force behind the PRI, bypassing the leftist Democratic Revolution Party in local legislative elections.